The font issue was resolved as I as I am adjusting them one by one on a tedious basis.
Hmm, when Virtual1 suggested removing all .DS_Store files would facilitate the process, you seemed enthused to try it. That's really the fastest way, if speed matters.
But this slider brought me back to the central question, which no one here has lucidly explained: What is default doing? It does not seem to perform any function.
It has been lucidly explained and it does indeed function.
Let's consider the alternative: if "default views" worked the way
you think it should, then tweaking our default views would
instantly obliterate all our meticulously and painstakingly designed custom views... and a lot of people (the vast majority of capable users anyway) would find
that behavior very *very* annoying. So i for one am grateful that they work the way they do now.
Again: the window is going to remember and stick any settings for that window. And it does not effect any future windows or even any other windows, so what does it do?
Are you still wondering about that slider? It's not part of the default view paradigm (which i clearly indicated previously). To affect default
icon sizes (on
non-custom windows), use View Options/command-J. It works fine that way, and to think otherwise is to mislead oneself.
So it goes.